Aberdeen Corporate Services Limited

Aberdeen Corporate Services Limited is seeking an Index Data Management Analyst based in Edinburgh. The successful candidate will ensure accurate delivery of benchmark data, collaborate with global stakeholders, and support fund valuation processes. With a focus on data quality and continuous improvement, this permanent role offers excellent exposure to investment data lifecycle and valuable skill development in a blended working environment.

Aberdeen Corporate Services Limited seeks a Resilience Lead in Edinburgh to implement and manage their Resilience Framework. In this role, you'll coordinate tests, manage operational vulnerabilities, and foster relationships with business owners to deliver resilience outcomes. Ideal candidates will have a strong understanding of operational resilience and a relevant certification. Benefits include 40 days of annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, and private healthcare.

Aberdeen Corporate Services Limited in Edinburgh is seeking an Investment Data Analyst to enhance the quality of security and investment data within their public markets business. You will monitor data flows from custodians and vendors, ensuring accuracy and completeness. This role offers exposure to the investment data lifecycle and opportunities for career development. Key responsibilities include resolving data exceptions and supporting corporate actions processing. Benefits include 40 days annual leave and a 16% employer pension contribution.

Aberdeen Corporate Services Limited is seeking a Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst in Edinburgh. In this role, you will lead threat-hunting operations and collect actionable intelligence to proactively identify and mitigate threats to the organization. The ideal candidate will have experience in threat hunting, knowledge of security analysis, and industry-recognized certifications. Benefits include 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, and private healthcare.

Aberdeen Corporate Services Limited in City of Edinburgh is seeking a Squad Technical Lead to oversee technical delivery and ensure alignment with business objectives. The role encompasses managing day-to-day tasks, collaborating with stakeholders, and driving continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle. Key skills required include strong technical experience, leadership capabilities, and proficiency in the Microsoft stack, particularly Azure DevOps and Git. This role offers competitive benefits, including 40 days of annual leave and a generous pension contribution.

About Aberdeen Job Description At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK's leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry's best talent. Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society. We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent. Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients' evolving needs: interactive investor, the UK's second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them. Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers. Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes. About the Department Public Market Operations underpins Aberdeen's investment management activities by delivering trusted, high-quality data and operational services. The team works across regions and functions to ensure investment, benchmark and reference data flows accurately through the organisation, supporting effective decision making and client outcomes. About the Role As an Index Data Management Analyst, you will support the delivery and validation of benchmark and index data used across Aberdeen's funds and investment processes. Based in Edinburgh, you will work with data vendors, internal systems and global stakeholders to resolve exceptions, monitor data quality and ensure timely delivery to downstream users. This role provides excellent exposure to the end to end investment data lifecycle and the opportunity to develop valuable technical and analytical skills. (Permanent role, blended working, Edinburgh). Key Responsibilities Validate and deliver index and benchmark data to downstream systems accurately and on time. Investigate and resolve data exceptions and breaks. Support unit pricing and fund valuation processes through robust benchmark validation. Build effective working relationships with internal teams and external vendors. Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the index data team. About the Candidate Interest or experience in index, benchmark or investment data within financial services. High attention to detail with an analytical and questioning mindset. Comfortable working with data, systems and reconciliations in a fast paced environment. Willingness to learn and develop within a collaborative, global team. Work Arrangement We've adopted a blended working approach that combines the benefits of face to face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. This allows colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business. Benefits Our benefits include 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits - including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. Equal Opportunity We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Resilience Lead As part of the Business Resilience Team, the Resilience Lead is responsible for the implementation, management and ongoing development of Aberdeen's Resilience Framework, across functions including Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Crisis Management and Physical Security. The Lead is responsible for overseeing the review, maintenance and continual improvement of Important Business Services, Critical and Important Functions, BIAs, plans and playbooks, forging effective working relationships with business owners to ensure delivery of resilience outcomes and that activities are conducted in line with Aberdeen's Resilience Policy and Framework. Working with Resilience Response and Testing colleagues, the Resilience Lead is responsible for coordinating tests and exercises and ensuring that Post Incident Review outcomes are tracked to completion. They are also responsible for the management of operational vulnerabilities with the relevant business owners, ensuring remediation plans are designed and delivered to plan. Key Responsibilities Build and maintain strong working relationships with business owners, acting as a trusted advisor on resilience matters and ensuring critical activity is delivered in accordance with the Resilience Framework. Support the review and continual improvement of Important Business Services, including maintaining and deepening mapping of processes, dependencies and workarounds. Support the delivery of regular testing of all components of the Resilience programme and conduct analysis on the results, ensuring that lessons learned are understood by the business owners and tracked to completion. As part of Aberdeen's On Call Incident Manager rota, support the response to local and major incidents and support the Operational Resilience Business Partners, Resilience Response & Testing Manager and Head of Resilience in the management of major and crisis level incidents. Develop and review Plans and Playbooks used by the business to support their response to disruptive events. Deliver training, workshops and exercises to business stakeholders, covering all Resilience functions. Work with the business to remediate operational vulnerabilities raised via incidents, tests/exercises or audits, ensuring that appropriate remediation plans are developed and progressed to completion. Undertake analysis to identify opportunities to mitigate, manage or remove risks which threaten our ability to continue to operate during an incident or interruption. Develop, implement and manage our agreed controls to govern existing effectiveness and alignment with ISO22301, client and Regulator obligations. Make all recovery information available annually for external audit requirements to provide control reports for board and client reporting and due diligence. Contribute to both internal and external audits, including review of collated material to ensure all compliance requirements are sufficiently covered. Provide regular updates to Operational Resilience Business Partners, as and when required, for reporting requirements such as Board papers, Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process and Security and Resilience programme planning. Prepare and deliver dashboards, MI packs, and status updates for senior stakeholders. Promote global awareness of the Resilience policy, framework, standards, plans, processes and roles and responsibilities. Engage with internal and external parties in their response to resilience requirements. About the Candidate The ideal candidate will possess the following: Demonstrable strong understanding of current thinking across Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Crisis Management and/or Physical Security. Familiarity with relevant Resilience regulations and standards, including PS21/3 Operational Resilience, DORA and ISO22301. Strong organisational and analytical skills - with the attention to detail and ability to interpret operational data, process flows, and risk trends. Strong communication skills, capable of working collaboratively across multiple business teams and engaging with technical and non technical stakeholders. Proactive, inquisitive mindset and willingness to deep dive into complex processes. Ability to think calmly and logically to deliver high quality work when under pressure. Required Recognised resilience and/or cyber certification qualification e.g. Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI) or accredited ISO22301 Auditor, CISM, CISSP. Experience in coordinating or supporting the response to disruptive incidents. Experience in developing and delivering presentations/workshops/training to senior level executives. Proven ability to forge strong working relationships with individuals from business and supporting functions within a multinational or complex organisation. Desirable Understanding of financial services, asset management operations and/or platform services, particularly within a Resilience context. Knowledge and experience of ServiceNow in relation to Operational Resilience and Business Continuity Management. Benefits We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported. When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits - including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process. We're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment.

Job Description At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK's leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry's best talent. About the Department Public Market Operations supports Aberdeen's investment management activities by delivering trusted, high quality operational and data services. The team supports front office trading, fund valuation and performance, ensuring investment data is accurate, timely and well governed. Working closely with investment teams, custodians and technology partners, the department focuses on control, continuous improvement and strong client outcomes. About the Role As an Investment Data Analyst you will support the management and quality of security and investment data for Aberdeen's public markets business. Based in Edinburgh and reporting to the Data Management Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring data flows from custodians and vendors are accurate, complete and fit for purpose. You will investigate and resolve data exceptions, support corporate actions processing and respond to queries from investment and operational stakeholders. This role offers strong exposure to the end to end investment data lifecycle and an excellent opportunity to build a long term career in data management. Key Responsibilities Monitor, validate and maintain investment and security data received from custodians and data vendors. Investigate and resolve data exceptions relating to positions, static data and security attributes. Support the processing and review of corporate actions to ensure accurate downstream impact. Respond to data queries from front office, operations and other internal teams. Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to enhance data quality, controls and processes. Candidate Experience & Qualifications Experience in investment or security data within an asset management or financial services environment. Understanding of asset classes such as equities and fixed income. High attention to detail with an analytical and questioning mindset. Comfortable working with data, systems and reconciliations in a fast paced environment. Willingness to learn and develop within a collaborative, global team. EEO Statement We are proud to be a Disability Confident and Committed employer. We encourage applicants with disabilities to notify us through our candidate questionnaire. Benefits 40 days annual leave. 16% employer pension contribution. Discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable). Private healthcare. Flexible benefits including gym discounts, season ticket loans and an employee discount portal. Inclusive Culture Aberdeen promotes blended working and values diverse perspectives. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

You will join Aberdeen's Security, Resilience & Protection department as a Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst. The role is based in Edinburgh and reports directly to the Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead. About the Role The Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst will lead threat-hunting activities, collect, analyze and disseminate actionable intelligence to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate threats to the organisation. The role reports directly to the Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead and works with other security functions including specialist 3rd party security suppliers, global IT and business teams. Key Responsibilities Lead proactive, intelligence driven threat hunting operations to identify anomalous activity and misconfigurations that may have bypassed controls. Support and improve the Cyber Threat Intelligence function based on priorities and intelligence requirements/needs. Produce high quality reports and briefings for technical and senior stakeholders. Gather TI requirements, facilitate intelligence evaluation and ensure threat information and intelligence are described in a clear, concise manner. Develop, test, and refine threat hypotheses based on adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), using Threat Intelligence frameworks. Candidate Qualifications The ideal candidate will possess the following: Demonstrable experience in threat hunting, incident response, or SOC operations. Understanding of Kusto Query Language (KQL) for security log analysis, threat detection, etc. Experience with security tools, such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR/XDR, AV, web and email filtering, web application firewalls and DDoS protections, and host based protections. Industry recognised certifications such as CEH, OSCP, CISSP, CTIA, CPTIA, CRTIA, GCTI, etc. Experience of working within the financial services sector is advantageous. Benefits 40 days' annual leave. 16% employer pension contribution. Discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable). Private healthcare. Flexible benefits including gym discounts, season ticket loans, and access to an employee discount portal. EEO / Disability Confidence Statement We are proud to be a Disability Confident committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process. We're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense - this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

Squad Technical Lead Oversee all technical aspects of squad delivery. Work closely with the Product Owner and Scrum Master to manage day to day task execution, ensuring prioritised backlog items are delivered with a balanced focus on business led features and support and maintenance. Partner with the Product Owner to keep the squad focused on the right outcomes and incorporate technical considerations. Communicate progress and value to key stakeholders. Provide subject matter expertise and contribute to planning, estimation, and skill development. Own solution design for the squad's product set. Align cross squad, tribe, and team technical matters with the architectural CoE roadmap. Understand the product backlog, manage technical implications and dependencies. Track squad progress and sign off all design decisions, ensuring alignment with the product roadmap and architectural standards. Guarantee quality of releases into production. Remove technical blockers and guide the team through troubleshooting. Identify, address, and mitigate risks and issues related to delivery. Drive continuous improvement across the SDLC in partnership with the DevSecOps Platform Team. Skills & Experience Business Knowledge (beneficial): Understanding of the asset management business, core objectives of the Asset Management Tribe, and squad-level objectives. Technical Experience: Strong knowledge of software design and development in a test driven environment. Microsoft stack proficiency: Azure DevOps, Git (branching, pull requests, best practices). Automation: CI/CD, workflows, hooks. Leadership: Ability to lead, motivate, and line manage a team of technology professionals; coaching, mentoring, and supporting professional development. Communication & Interpersonal: Excellent communication, organisational, time management, problem solving, and influence skills. Adaptability: Curiosity about emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices. Detail orientation and independent prioritisation as part of a team. Benefits 40 days annual leave. 16% employer pension contribution. Discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable). Private healthcare. Flexible benefits: gym discounts, season ticket loans, employee discount portal. Equal Opportunity & Inclusion We are proud to be a Disability Confident and inclusive employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and provide reasonable adjustments for applicants with disabilities. Our inclusive culture values diversity in education, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, ethnicity, and geographical provenance.